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Summary

The Contemporary Reader reader includes more contemporary selections than any other popular culture reader on the market with over 90% of the readings written in the last five years. The text's ten tightly focused thematic chapters cover a range of writing on interesting issues familiar to students and relevant to our times." Readings are organized around a variety of appealing, thought-provoking themes such as " Fashion and Flesh: The Images We Project, " " Advertising: Wanting It, Selling It, " " On the Cutting Edge of Science: Human Cloning and Genetic Engineering, " " Making the Grade: Education Today, " " Gender Perceptions, " and " The American Experience."

Table of Contents

New readings are marked with an asterisk

Preface

Introduction: How to Read and Write Critically

What Is Critical Thinking?

Why Read Critically?

How to Read Critically

Sample Essay for Analysis: ""Now, Cut that Out!,"

What is Critical Writing?

Approaching Visuals Critically

Fashion and Flesh: The Images We Project

The Media Assault on Male Body Image

Never Too Buff

Culture Shock: Superheroes

What I Think About the Fashion World

Culture Shock: Get Real

The Natural Beauty Myth

Weighing In

My Hips, My Caderas

Reading the Blog: Eating Disorders: The Numbers

Weight of the World

Viewpoints: A Man's Guide to Slimming Couture, Scott McKeon; Why Do We Get to Laugh at Fat Guys?

Culture Shock: Norbit

Consumer Nation: Wanting It, Selling It

Shop 'til We Drop?

Targeting a New World

What's Wrong with Cinderella?

Culture Shock: Sphere of Influence: Television Commercials

Lunchbox Hegemony

A Brand by Any Other Name

Culture Shock: Branding

Branded World: The Success of the Nike Logo

Culture Shock: A Portfolio of Advertisements

Lux Populi

Viewpoints: With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything, William Lutz; The Language of Advertising

It's All Relative: The American Family in Flux

Family: Idea, Institution, and Controversy

Numbers Drop for the Married-with-Children

The Decline of Marriage

Culture Shock Marriage Trends in the United States

For Better, for Worse

The Cultural Devaluation of Child-Rearing

Culture Shock: God-Ordained Marriage

Did I Miss Something?

A New Generation Is Leading the Way

Viewpoints: Why the "M" Word Matters to Me

The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage

Culture Shock: Gay Marriage

Reading the Blog: A really, really long post about gay marriage that does not, in the end, support one side or the other

Remote Control: Television's Influence

Can TV Improve Us?

Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor

Overexposure of Violence in Our Society

Culture Shock: Turn Off Your TV Week

The Myth of Media Violence

TV's War of Words

Born Again

The Great TV Debate

Three Cheers for Reality TV

The Collapse of Big Media: The Young and the Restless

Viewpoints: AAP Discourages Television for Very Young Children, American Academy of Pediatrics; TV Can Be a Good Parent